Octopus Tracker

bristolleedsfan

Telegraph_Sam said:

Long gap between deserting and returning

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masonic

Telegraph_Sam said:

I am awaiting my first Tracker invoices.

I get the impression that Agile is for those who are able and willing to adjust their daily consumption pattern to take advantage of daily price peaks and troughs. Essentially short term management. Whilst Tracker is for those who think in cycles which could be months in length. To give this a label: "medium term management". The choice being to keep with Tracker or to switch to a different more fixed tariff. Depending on the yardstick(s) for comparison selected.

As generalisations go is this somewhere near accurate?

In answer to your question, Agile is only really suitable for those who can avoid using much energy during the evening peak period. Without that, it would be difficult to make a saving. The average price also tends to fluctuate more than Tracker due to the higher multiplier effect, so cheap days tend to have a cheaper average price and expensive days tend to be more expensive. However, during the expensive days, there may be nowhere to hide, and its possible for the whole day to be more expensive than SVR.

Few if any are able to load-shift to take advantage of cycles that are weeks or months in length. Tracker suits those who do no load shifting and just want to avoid hedging costs, or those who wish to load shift to the extent that they will put something off until tomorrow, or do it a day earlier based on which day is cheaper. A very small number try to make predictions a few days ahead using things like wind forecasts. To some extent Agile users will do this too, but they sometimes also have the benefit of intra-day dips.

ashe

When tracker is good agile is very very good but when tracker is bad agile is horrid

bur if you have solar and battery storage imagine agile is great because you can load up the batteries at the cheapest rates, use it when it's more expensive and have solar top up if needed 

tghe-retford

You had the HotUKDeals influx, now we have the Daily Mail influx.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/bills/article-12614937/Octopus-tracker-tariff-energy-prices-fall-cut-bills.html

Quote: "As wholesale prices fall..." 

Have they seen the recent wholesale gas prices as a result of numerous circumstances?

It gets worse. The article claims the gas cap is 27p per kWh.

It will be ironic if the prices breach the cap tomorrow after this article encourages people to join. If you were feeling uncharitable, you'd call this article the death knell for Tracker.

pfpf

t0rt0ise said:

The gastracker.uk guy has made a site that works out your savings this year and last by month, so I can see my savings this year so far are £710 on tracker compared with the SVT. Much easier than working it out myself. Doesn't quite do what those here want but is very useful. Go to gastracker.uk and hit Crowd Share. When added you can filter on your own name to get your own graph data.

hey. did this yesterday. how do you actually see your own results today? i am on the website, do i have to put my same details in again on the same page and it will find me? i can't see a "filter" to find a specific name, i.e me.

ashe

pfpf said:

t0rt0ise said:

The gastracker.uk guy has made a site that works out your savings this year and last by month, so I can see my savings this year so far are £710 on tracker compared with the SVT. Much easier than working it out myself. Doesn't quite do what those here want but is very useful. Go to gastracker.uk and hit Crowd Share. When added you can filter on your own name to get your own graph data.

hey. did this yesterday. how do you actually see your own results today? i am on the website, do i have to put my same details in again on the same page and it will find me? i can't see a "filter" to find a specific name, i.e me.

There's a filter section to search by contributor

click the crowd funding then view prices I think then set the filter 

pfpf

ashe said:

pfpf said:

t0rt0ise said:

The gastracker.uk guy has made a site that works out your savings this year and last by month, so I can see my savings this year so far are £710 on tracker compared with the SVT. Much easier than working it out myself. Doesn't quite do what those here want but is very useful. Go to gastracker.uk and hit Crowd Share. When added you can filter on your own name to get your own graph data.

hey. did this yesterday. how do you actually see your own results today? i am on the website, do i have to put my same details in again on the same page and it will find me? i can't see a "filter" to find a specific name, i.e me.

There's a filter section to search by contributor

click the crowd funding then view prices I think then set the filter 

crikey, thats well hidden. thank you.

Shedman

pfpf said:

t0rt0ise said:

The gastracker.uk guy has made a site that works out your savings this year and last by month, so I can see my savings this year so far are £710 on tracker compared with the SVT. Much easier than working it out myself. Doesn't quite do what those here want but is very useful. Go to gastracker.uk and hit Crowd Share. When added you can filter on your own name to get your own graph data.

hey. did this yesterday. how do you actually see your own results today? i am on the website, do i have to put my same details in again on the same page and it will find me? i can't see a "filter" to find a specific name, i.e me.

BTW I believe he has changed the criteria to now only include those with at least one years tracker history so if you haven't been on Tracker for that length you may not be added anyway

la531983

In better news there is seemingly no post-weekend gas spike, it opened lower than it closed on Friday and has gone down further.

ashe

la531983 said:

In better news there is seemingly no post-weekend gas spike, it opened lower than it closed on Friday and has gone down further.

The interesting thing with this is if you hit it to 12m comparison and overlay it with tracker prices over the last 12 months it's still very low